Selected quad for the lemma: master_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
master_n	lord_n	servant_n	service_n	5,597	5	7.0128	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A32864	A sermon preach'd before the honourable company of merchants trading to the Levant-seas, at St. Hellen's, January 16, being Sunday, 1697/8 by Edm. Chishull ...	Chishull, Edmund, 1671-1733.	1698 (1698)	Wing C3901; ESTC R271	10,001	31

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